MY JOURNEY WAS uncommonly agreeable: I found
the Baron a Man of some sense, but little knowledge of
the world. He had past a great part of his life without
stirring beyond the precincts of his own domains, and
consequently his manners were far from being the most
polished: But He was hearty, good-humoured, and
friendly. His attention to me was all that I could wish,
and I had every reason to be satisfied with his behaviour.
His ruling passion was Hunting, which He had brought
himself to consider as a serious occupation; and when
talking over some remarkable chace, He treated the
subject with as much gravity, as it had been a Battle on
which the fate of two kingdoms was depending. I
happened to be a tolerable Sportsman: Soon after my
arrival at Lindenberg*I gave some proofs of my dexterity.
The Baron immediately marked me down for a Man of
Genius, and vowed to me an eternal friendship.

That friendship was become to me by no means
indifferent. At the Castle of Lindenberg I beheld for the
first time your Sister, the lovely Agnes. For me whose

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